On Looking into the Black Box: Prospects and Limits in the Search for Mental Models

By W. Rouse, N. M. Morris. 1986

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, neutral): “…et al., 2012; Lewis, 1986; Mandel, 2011; Moray, 1987b, 1990, 1996, 1998; Moultin and Kosslyn, 2009; Phillips, Ososky, Grove, and Jentsch, 2011; Rouse and Morris, 1986; St-Cyr. and Burns, 2002; Wilkison, Fisk, and Rogers, 2007; Williams, Hollan, and Stevens, 1983; Wilson and Rutherford, 1989;…”
What Do We Want From Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)? - A Stakeholder Perspective on XAI and a Conceptual Model Guiding Interdisciplinary XAI Research (2021, background): “, mental models allow humans “to generate descriptions of system purpose and form, explanations of system functioning and observed system states, and predictions of future states” [154].”
Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development (2007, background): “Shared knowledge helps members coordinate because it helps individuals develop more accurate explanations and expectations about task events and member behaviors [12, 44, 45, 66].”
Models and Modelling: Routes to More Authentic Science Education (2004, background): “They can be used to: make abstract entities visible (Francoeur, 1997); provide descriptions and/or simplifications of complex phenomena ( Rouse & Morris, 1986 ); be the basis for both scientific explanations of and predictions about phenomena (Gilbert, Boulter & Rutherford, 1998).”
‘Social Sharedness’ as a Unifying Theme for Information Processing in Groups (2000, background): “Cognitive psychologists have argued that mental models are important for understanding how people interact with various aspects of their environment (Rouse & Morris, 1986).”
Science teachers' knowledge about and attitudes towards the use of models and modelling in learning science (2002, background): “At one extreme we find more straightforward functions such as the representation of entities in the provision of descriptions and/or simplifications of complex phenomena (Rouse and Morris 1986, Ingham and Gilbert 1991, Glynn and Duit 1995, van Driel 1998).”
Differentiating knowledge in teams: The effect of shared declarative and procedural knowledge on team performance (2007, background): “The most widely cited definition of a mental model in this literature is Rouse & Morris (1986) (e.g. Blickensderfer, Cannon-Bowers & Salas, 1997; Cannon-Bowers et al., 1993; Marks et al., 2000; Mathieu et al., 2000, Peterson, Mitchell, Thompson & Burr, 2000).”
Measuring Shared Team Mental Models: A Meta-Analysis (2010, background): “…Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice © 2010 American Psychological Association 2010, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1–14 1089-2699/10/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0017455 1 functioning of systems—their purpose and form—and to form predictions and expectations about future states (Rouse & Morris, 1986).”
ARDI: a co-construction method for participatory modelling in natural resources management (2011, background): “The approach focuses on encouraging participants to describe, explain, and predict the purpose, form, function, and state of a given system (Rouse and Morris 1986), so as to elicit causal knowledge as defined by Jones et al. (2011).”